Week in Review November 16, 2012

We had a pretty good week of lessons and learned some life skills.  Each day we had bible time, prayer time, math and read alouds.  The weather is so perfect this time of year the boys are spending lots of time outside playing.  

This week for read alouds we read from Aesop Fables, Blueberries for Sal and The Story of Ping.  

For science we read the book A Seed is Sleepy by Dianna Aston.  

In math we continued to learn about money with dimes, nickels and pennies.  Another math lesson this week was learning about half by folding shapes in half.  Here is Jonathan cutting his shapes out (love the tongue!).  Of course little brother had to do one also.  This is the first time I have allowed him to use scissors.  

Jonathan has been asking to learn to read so we started some word building exercises.  For two days we did word building with 'at'.  It is very slow going since he is not really ready.  He loved doing the word building so I will continue with 'at' until he gets it or if it is no longer fun.  

I had been wanting to teach the boys to clean their bathroom but the cleaners I use are just too harsh for them.  I went to the mommies on one of my favorite homeschooling forums and this is the cleaner I made for them.

2 cups water
1/2 cup vinegar
20 drops of lavender essential oil

The boys had so much fun cleaning their bathroom!